(01-03-2026 04:04 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(01-03-2026 01:38 PM)U_of_Elvis Wrote:  

(01-03-2026 01:04 PM)Eagleaidaholic Wrote:  

(01-03-2026 12:57 PM)U_of_Elvis Wrote:  

(01-03-2026 07:58 AM)UofMstateU Wrote:  

I would like to hear the explanation of how a foreign national on foreign soil was charged with NFA violations. That’s going to be a wild amount of making **** up.

Where are all the Trump supporters that think the NFA should be abolished?

You need to get off X. The US has been doing this for centuries. ie: El Chapo.

The NFA was passed in 1934, so we have not been charging people with NFA violations for centuries.

El Chapo was arrested in Mexico and extradited to the US, so that isn’t a good example. Manuel Noriega would be a better example.

El Chapo was charged with “using a firearm in furtherance of drug crime” which seems much easier convict someone of who wasn’t in the US once you tie that their drug crimes crossed US borders.

NFA laws are possession laws. It is unlawful to possess a machine gun unless it was placed on the registry before it closed in 1986, and it was transferred to you via the appropriate ATF form (4) and background process including fingerprints. Destructive devices are the same way without the registry date.

It would seem very hard to convict someone of possessing something outlawed by the United States unless they were physically in the United States. We can’t outlaw the possession of items in other countries.

If I had to guess how that charge is in the mix----maybe he is part of a conspiracy designed to move drugs and supply his cartel members in the US with those weapons (perhaps the weapons in the US were traced to the Venezuelan military armory). Its going to be a public document, so eventually, we will see the basis of the charge.

The charge is possession of machine guns or other destructive devices in conspiracy against the US.